The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Wall paper is so beautiful and ar
tistic now as to be easily mistaken for
frescoe.-N. Y Mail.
The Marquis de Mores, the million.
aire cowboy of Montana, has leased
house in New York for four months,
paying ga, 900 for the rent of the house
and furniture.
: Pierre Lorillard's toboggan slide al
Tuxedo Park, near New York, is exactly
one mile long and the descent is fire.
quently made in just one minute of
time.--N Y. Tribune.
Here is lesson from boy that
some older person might well heed:
why did you not pocket some? No
body was there to see you" 81 was
there, and never intend to see myself
do mean thing. Albany Journal.
Jim Brown eloped from Tin Cup.
Col, with woman who was described
in local paper as fiat blonde
Friends telegraphed the fact to the fair
creature, and she returned and smashed
a pitcher over the editors head.-Den-
yer Tribune.
William H. Warner. a Connecticut
murderer and suicide. left document
ordering that his body should be held for
one week after his supposed death, and
that he be buried face downward, all of
which directions were religiously OBJ
served by his friends.
Railway Conductor-"Can't you do
something for this passenger" Doctor
HAS he appeared sick long?" mo,
he got out and took his meals at every
lunch-station we stopped at from San
Francisco to Omaha" "Humph!
Hadn't he any provender with him?"
IL believe not. What do you think ails
himp" STARVATION. "-Onlaha World
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Thompson, of
East Bridgewater, are probably the
oldest married couple in Massachusetts,.
They celebrated the seventy-second an
niversary of their marriage the other
day. and all of their children were
present to wish them joy. Mr.. Thomp-
son is ninety-five years old and can
read without the aid of spectacles, but
his hearing is poor, while his wife's
eyesight is not what it used to be. but
her bearing is acute. Boston Herald.
"A writer in the Boston Post says:
''Some years ago noticed for the first
time frail young girl who had taken
her position as candy seller in door
way, upon a particularly cold street.
marked her appearance with sigh.
feeling sure that the severity of single
winter would consign her to an early
grave. But what has been the result?
She has sat in the same place ever since,
and instead of going into decline she
has improved in looks year by year,
and is now positively robust"
Fifteen years ago G. L. Larme w:s
scalped by the Sioux Indians in the
western part of the then Territory ct
Colorado. Monday he wandered into
Waco, Tex, sick, weary and without
money. He had been rowing about in
the mountains for fifteen years. His
wounds are still open, and when he lifts
his hat and raises the bandages he pre-
scnts CHASTITY spectacle. Many old
frontiersmen gathered about him, and
the old flash leaped into their eyes as
they listened to his pitiful story. Steps
are being taken to permanently relieve
his necessities. Tribune.
THE billiards. out in Dakota are
so terrible" said man just in from
the North. ''that the people string
clothes-lines from their homes to the
out-houses in order that they may pass
TO and fro during the prevalence of one
of these storms without running the
risk of losing their way in their own
yards. One can not see three feet
ahead in a Dakota blizzard, and if he
once loses his bearings he is almost GER
tain to drift out upon the prairie and
perish before assistance can reach him.
With the aid of rope man is enabled
to grope about his own yard with COM
parative safety so long as he doesn't let
Chicago Herald.